plans to transfer Toorak Park/Victory Square and the railway path to its development. In other words, taking control of public land;

plans to axe existing healthy trees and replace our natural parkland and streetscape with few and monotonous plants, much like a moonscape.

Lend Lease Proposal

Lend Lease Proposed Buildings, Height & Number of Dwellings

Orrong Group is lobbying for low-rise development on behalf of residents. Residents want 16 levels
scaled back to 5 levels which is the current height of buildings at the site.
Orrong Group is lobbying political parties and local/state government to stop the wholesale destruction of amenity and ‘green’ environments by an opportunistic multinational developer.

Residents won’t be railroaded by Lend Lease to accept over-development and an injection of 2,000 people and vehicles in a village precinct on a daily basis!

Image courtesy Kirsten Anderson

Consider the image above…
Lend Lease’s towers will be 5 levels higher than the apartment block at left located rear to Siena Caffe in Chapel St, and up to 7 levels higher than Prahran Housing Commission flats above right!

We need a community effort to be highly effective in bringing the developer to heel. The alternative is a development that leaves an appalling legacy with which we must live forever.

Write letters and emails to Council, local MPs and Stonnington Leader.

In-kind assistance or donation appreciated.

For more information & to register your support email: orronggroup@gmail.com Phone: 9510 4845H

This development means traffic gridlock, overflowing train stations and tram stops, no more on-street car parking, a blighted skyline and less privacy for current residents. It will also impinge on adjoining public land. It defies the lowrise local residential style.

This development will set a precedent for further development.

This is a rare opportunity for Stonnington to increase open space, develop a school or a stellar medium density residential development. We do not need another Docklands.

Already we know that Toorak Station is within developers' sites. How long before Hawksburn and Armadale are redeveloped?

Stonnington Council - after much campaigning - refused the permit but developer Lend Lease successfully overturned this decision at VCAT. This VCAT decision is in turn being appealed in the Supreme Court in April 2013.

Our opponent is smart, moneyed, experienced and well connected. We won't win this without your help.

Lend Lease has 'consulted' but never compromised. They entirely underestimated our ability to fight their plan.

Reading this is just the beginning - we need you to work with us to fight the towers.